{"id":95185,"date":"2022-03-29T14:26:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T14:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/aston-martin-virage-6-3-litre\/"},"modified":"2022-04-11T11:37:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T11:37:25","slug":"aston-martin-virage-6-3-litre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/aston-martin-virage-6-3-litre\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Martin Virage 6.3 Litre"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Aston Martin Works has long been known among brand connoisseurs for excellent work on classic Aston Martin models. It emerged from the Customer Service Division. Since 2007, the Works department has been based at the former production site in Newport Pagnell, where around 13,000 cars were built by hand before production moved to Gaydon. Currently, the company is celebrating the 30th anniversary of a special conversion. Starting in 1992, they offered a conversion that is one of the most famous and sought-after in the company’s history. It was based on the Virage, introduced in 1989, which was the brand’s first all-new model in a good 20 years. Parallel to the debut of this production car, Aston Martin also returned to the race track after a long break. There, the AMR1 took part in the Group C Sports Car World Championship. Behind the driver was a power unit derived from the production V8 engine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 330 to 500 hp<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The original 5.3-liter engine quickly grew to six and then 6.3 liters in the race car. Aston Martin wanted to share this increase with its production car customers. However, the financial resources weren’t sufficient to launch a separate model variant. Instead, a conversion kit was available, initially under the table, which could be carried out at the factory in the Customer Service Division. This was also in keeping with the “more is more” spirit of the time. From the original 5.3-liter V8, the Virage developed 330 hp and 475 Nm of torque. Not a bad figure for the early 1990s. However, expandable, as the conversion kit showed. This boosted output to 500 hp and 651 Nm. 542 Nm – a good deal more than in the production car – were already available from 2,500 rpm. Together with Cosworth, they developed a four-valve cylinder head with new intake camshafts, racing pistons and a forged crankshaft.<\/p>\n\n\n

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